The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-25

traffic, cheap goods, a chance to bug
where aCe- could buy the cheapest, aud
thus make our money go fartherst; com.
petiti0n-a cnance for all to live and &C.
cumulate-in other words,
FREE TRADE,
was close at hand.
Like the AsyrIan sweeping down as
a wolf on the fold, came the vanguard
of civilization the evangeI of progress,
the champion OF human rights, the
forerunner of equalized societyLthe
locomotive, the glow of his glaring eye
seeming at once pillar of fire for the
guidance of those lost in the wilderness
and an illuminator of the dark ways of
the protectionist; his shrieks so many
acclamatIons of triumph over the dis.
enthrallment of the down-troddenp aud
the clangor of his bell a death
knell to the reign of spoliation.
He came,- he saw, he conquered,
and the good things he brought made
the masses comparatively independent;
at least 1t Was made possible for them
to successfully fight the protectionist
with the only Weapons he can be fought
with-foreign competition. unrestricted
commerce. ..,,
Under which system has Utah pros
pered the most under protection,
y Inch protected the lew at the expeu Sc
of the MANY (as it always deesl, or
under an equalizsd condition of thiags,
brought about by the removal of the
chief restrictions upon traffic from
abroad, otherwise free trade So called
The Southern States, as previously
CT cd no n 60 lo e. ~,
a climate which rendered it impossible
to produce cotton elsewhere in the
country, and q tariff which shut out
imports-juSt wkat.the wool men have
today. They also had another marker
in the game of protection, in the
ownership of their labor. The
war swept both advantages away
and ~ established a measurable
dSgree of free trade in the South.
What was the result thereP That sec
sion of the Union is now more prosper
Gus than the northern part, and
promises to become more wealthy.
Contrast this condition OF things. with
that of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island or
Connecticut, where. q viler fern of
slavery exists than ever did at the
south, for the reason that white people
are the victims and they know no holt
daYs-theses states where protection is
rife. IL the frst-naned, particularly,
the home OF the hungry humbug, there
are more poor and'helpless victims to
the Unsuitable greed OF monopoly and
capital than there are people in Utah
Territory. This Is a direct result of the
people at large, whose means are linn =
ted Being unable to cope with the few
VINO have plenty. and our legislation so
far favoring the latter class. When the
laws will not help the bone and sinew OF
nation to such terms of equality
as will give them q plain fighting
chance, fair field with no favor, what
can you expect but an outburst Of
anarchy here and there as the nat JIral
sntithesisP don't say that protection
with its train of abuses is an excuse for
anarchy. but l do say what everybody
can see, that one is the illegitimate
offspring OF the other, and that if we
have e1tinguished the bastard, let us
take one step further and kill the
stIumpet who gave it existence.sat $50
The sheep men here and elsewhere
have already begun Complaints fe-
garding the outlook JWhyP Simply
because the wool industry is the most
profitable for the, outlay and expense
involved of any other on American
soil. 4ts;snot right nor just to permit
men 10 so use their opportunities as to
srealize so per cent. profit per. annum
on an investment, while those VINO toll
or are engaged in more limited.enter-s
prise il which they are glad to get two
or three per cent. returns have .to,pavi
it TO them. 1t is a fine thing for the
wool men as i! stands The tariff der